EFMI thanks WoHIT for their collaboration. As a pan-European federation of 32 member states, EFMI is the largest forum focused on medical informatics, bioinformatics, biostatistics, measuring health, and epidemiology. EFMI was founded in 1976 with the mission of advancing information science and technology in healthcare across Europe. EFMI aims to create a platform connecting researchers, industry, users, and policymakers and to bridge national, European, and global research and development efforts in healthcare informatics. EFMI offers various conferences, working groups, newsletters, and collaborations to unite the healthcare informatics community in Europe.
2. A pan-European Federation of 32 European
Member-States.
The comprehensive and biggest forum for:
• Medical and Health Informatics.
• Bio Informatics.
• Bio-Statistics,
• Measuring health
• Epidemiology.
3. EFMI Mission started in 1976
The Federation shall be
constituted as a nonprofit
organisation concerned with the
theory and practice of
Information Science and
Technology within Health and
Health Science in a European
context.
Copenhagen, 11 September 1976.
NI 2009 Helsinki 3
4. EFMI Objectives
Creating European Platform for
researchers, industry, users and policy
makers
Theory and Practice of Health and
Medical Informatics
Bridging National European and Global
research , development, use and
evaluation
Providing a structure for people to meet
and work together as EFMI friends
7. EFMI MIE conferences unites HI in Europe
2010
STC
ICELAND
2009 2009
STC MIE
LONDON
Serajevo
1993
8. EFMI Offers
• EFMI Website
• the Monthly EFMI News letter
• Annual MIE Conferences.
• Working Group Meetings and Workshops.
• Annual Special Topic Conferences (STC).
• National Societies Conferences.
• Global and Regional Associations ( IMIA, APAMI, AMIA
10. Come to Iceland
EFMI STC 2010 Conference in Reykjavík June 2-4
Seamless care - safe care
The challenges of interoperability and patient
safety in health care